DOE/MEXT Fall Meeting

September 23–24, 2026
Sandia National Laboratories, California Site
Livermore, California

This site provides meeting information for DOE laboratory participants and visitors from MEXT in Japan.

Registration and badging are now closed.

The final detailed agenda is available as a PDF.

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Overview

The DOE/MEXT Fall Meeting will be held on September 23–24, 2026, at the Sandia National Laboratories California site in Livermore, California.

  • Plenary sessions: Building 904 Auditorium
  • Breakout rooms reserved: 905 Mezzanine, 905/117, 905/209, 905/210, 905/217, 903/1021, 903/1008

Visiting SNL/CA

We look forward to welcoming you to Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, Wednesday & Thursday, September 23-24, 2026.

  • Please plan to arrive to our campus by 7:00-7:45a to allow sufficient time for badging (unless your HSPD-12 is already registered for SNL CA via https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/onennsaccess).
    • Please ensure you bring photo identification:
      • Non-US citizens: Passport and any appropriate supplementary documentation.
      • US citizens: Unexpired physical REAL ID compliant identification will be required for badge issuance. Please reach out to the badge office at 925-294-1358 directly with questions about whether your identification is REAL ID compliant.
        • Please retain your badge overnight, ensuring it is in your possession upon arrival on Thursday, 09/24. All badges will be collected upon Thursday’s event conclusion.
  • Map & Directions are below.
    • Rental vehicles and RideShares are both good options for arrival to/pickup from parking lot E1. For RideShares the GPS address is 1 Thunderbird Lane, Livermore, CA 94550, (accessing campus from Greenville Rd).
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General information on visiting SNL/CA is here:

Agenda

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

  • 7:00 – 8:30a      Badging (Sandia Badge Office)
  • 8:00 – 9:00a      Breakfast – Coffee and light breakfast
  • 9:00 – 9:10a      Security & Meeting Logistics – Ron Brightwell, David Richards 
  • 9:10 – 9:20a      Welcome to Sandia – Toby Townsend, Associate Labs Director
  • 9:20 – 9:50a      Program Updates – Hal Finkel, Thuc Hoang, Satoshi Matsuoka, Kiyoshi Kurihara
  • 9:50 – 10:20a    Break
  • 10:20 – 11:20a   Keynote Talk – Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia
  • 11:20 – 11:50a   Genesis Program Update – Hal Finkel & Rick Stevens
  • 11:50a – 12:10p  Takashi Shimokawabe (The University of Tokyo) – “Porting NICAM, a Large-Scale Atmospheric Model Written in Fortran, to Kokkos Using an AI Coding Agent”
  • 12:10 – 1:30p    Lunch
  • 1:30 – 3:00p     Working Group Session #1
  • 3:00 – 3:30p     Break
  • 3:30 – 5:00p     Working Group Session #2
  • 6:00p Banquet at Terra Mia Restaurant (if selected during registration)

Thursday, September 24, 2026

  • 8:00 – 9:00a     Breakfast – Coffee and light breakfast
  • 9:00 – 9:45a     Invited Talk – Jackie Chen (Sandia) – “High Performance Computing, Experiments and AI Elucidating Chemical Physics and Engine Combustion”
  • 9:45 – 10:30a   Working Group Session #3
  • 10:30 – 11:00a  Break
  • 11:00a – 12n  Working Group Outbriefs (4 @ 15min)
  • 12n – 1:30p    Lunch
  • 1:30 – 3:15p     Working Group Outbriefs (7 @ 15 min)
  • 3:15 – 3:45p    Break
  • 3:45 – 4:15p Meeting wrap up

Meeting Rooms

Plenary

  • Building 904 Auditorium

Reserved breakout rooms

  • Building 905 Mezzanine
  • Building 905/117
  • Building 905/209
  • Building 905/210
  • Building 905/217
  • Building 903/1021
  • Building 903/1008

Breakout room assignments will be posted once finalized.

Contacts

  • Program questions: Dave Richards (richards12@llnl.gov)
  • Logistics questions: Janine Bennett (jcbenne@sandia.gov), Ron Brightwell (rbbrigh@sandia.gov)
  • Foreign visitor questions: wg-doe-mext@sandia.gov
  • Website updates: Ron Brightwell (rbbrigh@sandia.gov)